• Genetic instructions for the manufacture of proteins are written in three-letter "words" called codons, each specifying one of 20 amino acids or a "stop translating" sign. The arrangement of these codons and their amino acid meanings was once considered random, but recent discoveries indicate that natural selection has chosen and maintained this order.
  
  
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